China's First Industrial Nuclear Energy Steam Supply Project Completed
TapTechNews June 19 news, today, China's first industrial use nuclear energy steam supply project - the Heqi No.1 project was officially completed and put into production at the Tianwan Nuclear Power Base invested and controlled by China National Nuclear Corporation.
China National Nuclear Corporation officials pointed out that this marks that China's comprehensive utilization of nuclear energy has expanded from single power generation and meeting the heating needs of urban residents to the field of industrial steam supply.
According to official introduction, the Heqi No.1 nuclear energy steam supply project is one of the first batch of green and low-carbon advanced technology demonstration projects, with the characteristics of green, safe, stable and efficient.
The project uses the secondary circuit steam that drives the steam turbine system in units 3 and 4 of the Tianwan nuclear power plant to generate electricity as the heat source, and adopts a multiple isolation design of the primary circuit, secondary circuit and steam circuit of the nuclear power plant to prepare industrial steam under the condition of physical isolation, and then transport the steam to the petrochemical industry base through industrial steam pipe networks through multi-stage heat exchange to replace traditional coal consumption and solve the problem of heat source and power source for petrochemical enterprises.
TapTechNews inquiry found that after the completion of the project, it can produce 4.8 million tons of zero-carbon clean steam annually, equivalent to reducing the combustion of 400,000 tons of standard coal per year, equivalent to reducing 1.07 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions, 184 tons of sulfur dioxide emissions, and 263 tons of nitrogen oxide emissions, which is equivalent to adding the area of newly planted forests by 2900 hectares, and saving more than 700,000 tons of carbon emission indicators for the petrochemical base every year.
Ye Qizhen, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said that the coupled development of comprehensive utilization of nuclear energy and high energy-consuming industries will further highlight the zero-carbon value of nuclear energy, which can meet the diverse energy needs of high energy-consuming industries, can provide decarbonization technical solutions for high-carbon-emission industries, and support the construction of national large chemical industry bases and large industrial bases, which is highly consistent with the country's deployment on the green and low-carbon transformation of industries.